Royal Earlswood Hospital, Redhill, Surrey
This was originally a Mental hospital. It was designed by W B Moffatt in 1852. It was the first asylum in the British Isles built to cater specifically for the mentally handicapped. Before mentally handicapped people had been put with the mentally ill. In lunatic asylums or workhouses. The Rev Dr Andrew Reed believed that the mentally handicapped could be trained. He believed that with careful teaching they could lead a relatively normal life in the outside world, working and caring for themselves.
